Saint Dunstan's College Charlottetown Prince Edward Island -2- WacDonald, who had undertaken to assist his oppressed and persecuted countrymen to Bmigrate, had sent his younger brother Donald with a band of mechanics to erect mildings and make some preparation for the accomodation of those who were to be tenants on the Glenaladale estate. In thts pioneer band was one UcHae who had a louse a few miles above the portage where the "Alexandern anchored, in a district hich, in opposition to the old .French fort they had passed on their way from ?ort- ■a-Joie, the emigrants dubbed Scotch Forts, a name it retains to this day. t is probable that l/lcRae's house wqs the first erected and that his fellow artisans lought its shelter after their day's work was over, as well as in the months when the jtorm King rode abroad in the forest and on the river, driving even these hardy moun- jaineers in doors to seek the comfort of a blazing wood fire and a consoling pipe. low they must have talked of horr.e on such occasions, and visited in spirit the misty ochs and rugged isles, where their dear ones were preying for the untried future in the new world. Tradition tells, that, in one compartment of that first log house, the faithful would distinctly hear the words of the Holy -ass, as if an invisible riest, were offering the sacrifice for them in their midst, even the tones of his xaice were clearly audible as he addressed the .almighty in the grand invocations of the Canon. The old people further tell you that when Father James -cDonald landed from the "Alexander" his first mass on Canadian ground was offered in i .icHae*B house, and those who had preceded the priest int0 exile recognized his tones as those they had heard during the past winter wnen no mass was being celebrated within many miles of their cabin. Be that as it may, it was in that part of Tracadie known as Scotch Fort and in the house of Donald ;..ac*tee that Father James LacDonald took up his abode, and from there he started in his canoe voyages to minister to tne sick in other parts of the province.